Thursday, April 29, 2021

Torah and Shalom bayis

Rav Dovid Moshe Steinwurzel was an important rabbi dayan and teacher at Bobov in Brooklyn. He was always thinking about Torah. One day he arrived to teach at Bobov and  his students asked why he was carrying a paper bag? He was surprised because he normally did not go around carrying a bag. He looked in it and was shocked- it was full of garbage and he had carried it from his home in Midwood to his class in Boro Park on the bus. He then remembered that just as he was leaving his house his wife and asked him to take out the garbage. He had forgotten about it until he arrived to teach and was asked by his students.

 

14 comments :

  1. What's the shaychus here with Torah?

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  2. >He was always thinking about Torah
    Which is nice if you live a hermit's life with no responsibilities to others, I guess.

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  3. There's a story about the Rogatchover who was climbing a ladder to get to a sefer from his library, and started reading it while still up the ladder. He was so engrossed in learning that he forgot to come down, until several hours later somebody walked into the room.

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  4. The usual: such a holy man, he couldn't focus on anything other than Torah

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  5. Absent-mindedness is often confused with devotion to Torah.

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  6. As is being OCD

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  7. well, I do it all the time, eg I have something else on my mind, and end up not remembering why I walked into a certain room.

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  8. Why can't you just enjoy the positive without dredging up negative?

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  9. Do you take out the garbage? It's a nice thing for a husband to do.

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  10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Spitzweg_021.jpg

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  11. I take out the garbage, I do the laundy and most of the cleaning up after Shabbos. You're welcome.

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  12. The Rogatchover had longer hair! and was not clean shaven

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  13. The Rogatchover also did not walk around bareheaded.

    The picture is an oil-on-canvas painting by the German painter and poet Carl Spitzweg, and is known as "The Bookworm" (German: Der Bücherwurm).
    It probably depicts a non-Jew.

    My point is posting it, is to illustrate that non-Jews also can be "bookish", and can get very engrossed in the material that they're studying, and forget where they're standing.

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  14. Kalonymus HaQatanMay 2, 2021 at 8:53 PM

    Elkohen being a recent example

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